My first real computer experience was on an Apple ][ at my elementary school. Granted it took many other factors over a lifetime to lead me where I am today, but I have to give props to Steve Jobs (and the Woz) for help getting it (being career, educational choices, etc.) started.
Looking back, its hard to remember in my new found "old" age. While maybe not exactly right, I do remember a game called Crossbows and Catapults. I doubt that game would have been sold in 20 years due to our new nanny state were everything that can put out an eye is banned.
As for video games, I would think Atarti 2600 probably. I remember switching the RF switch box and firing it up while listening to whatever tapes I recorded off the radio! [I am sure someone will tell me thats nothing, they stuck transitors in potatos while walking uphill both ways to get music.] Oddly enough, I got my Atari 400 and 800 many years after my first systems (2600, 7800, Odyssey, NES, etc).
Computers, um...I know I died many times on the Oregon Trail. However, what covered wagon was I in? Tandy something or other, or Commodore 64? Apple 2 maybe at my elementary school's library perhaps.
We have a system in Southern California called Metrolink that basically hooks up the Los Angeles and surrounding counties. Given I am from the east coast and would *love* to be able to take the train/subway to work; I always try to make excuses to use it. However, given the structure of the communities in not only Southern California, but also any city that does not have rail systems; makes this almost a pointless issue. You will still have to drive to whatever station, take the train (if your lucky point to point) and then find alternate transport to the final destination.
I been planning a trip from OC to San Diego and I only wanted to take the train. I have two options currently. I can take Metrolink to Oceanside, then transfer to the Breeze system (could be wrong about the name), then get on the SD Trolley to finish getting downtown. Three train system transfers alone between two neighboring majorly populated areas. Not station transfers on the same system. This of course is minus driving to the station and then taking taxi or walking a mile or two atleast in downtown SD to the final destination.
There have been many proposals about Maglev and other trains to Vegas which again would be great. However, the most promising and realistic option would end the line in like Ontario or Victorville or similar area. The issue here is, the bulk of the drive is coming and leaving from OC (if we are only talking about taking 55 to 91 to 15), so once your out past Victorville, long as there is no accident its usually ok. Literally half or more then the average time is just getting the show on the road or the final 10% (don't forget 87% of statistics are made up, but any SoCal'er will know what I am talking about).
About the best I could think of, atleast for the area is high speed link between the airports, to Vegas, and maybe up the coast. Then also make the trains available at real hours. I could take Metrolink to Union Station, then um, red line (maybe?) to Hollywood to party. However, last trains run very early on weekend so it is of no advantage. Even my aforementioned trip to SD, very few trains on weekend are scheduled. I realize why, but thats also part of why its not used as much on the weekend.
Sorry to diverge, but just wanting to point out, SoCal, like many areas of the country will have many other infrastructure issues to overcome first before adding Maglev on top of it, no matter how great I think it is.
I was wondering what happened. I was playing Texas Hold'Em last night and I was all in for 50K on one hand (a straight). Anyway, I noticed two others went all in, but while they were both clearly all in, there was maybe a 15 second pause. Then I saw one go from all in to fold. I was like ??!?!?!?
Then the other guy had something better (forget what) and won. But I was like wait, how he go from all in, to folding?
I been reading about this for quite a while now and its nice to see it finally happen. However, I do have a question about our (meaning those who purchased one) laptop. I am interested in checking out out, developing on it, etc. This got me to thinking, is it even necassary to have the laptop to develop for it? I am not familiar with its environment so I just wanted to find out if I could. If so, then I probably end up giving the laptop to some local charity to help out at home as well as abroad. I have read different bits about developing for individual projects; but what I want to do is, is there an IDE (not necassary GUI based) for it?
You know, I wonder if they can just take the approach as some of the Windows emulators take on Linux. Once its all opened up and the workings are exposed, just replace those functions as needed based on the platform. At the end of the day, all the platforms have differences or one type or another, so changes would have to be made to the fundamental libraries anyway to ensure same behavior cross-platform.
Parent has a great point. I am not a fanboy for any particular platform as you will see in my previous posts, though maybe I do take MS's side simply because I think the bashing is over the top sometimes.
Regardless, I cut my teeth in the C++/ASM world and jumped into.NET kind of early. Did it have some issues to start? Sure. Does it still have some? Sure. As all languages and platforms due. However, I feel many people felt that.NET (and subsequently the CLR/IM, etc) was meant to be cross platform hardware-wise, while MS took it to be only on Windows (sort of a Windows JVM so to speak). Hopefully with this change, all the effort gone into.NET can now be harnessed on Unix platforms. Sure, many of us can simply use whatever stack is available, but it be nice to spend most of the time in one so you can focus on the product/problem at hand, not worrying about the idiosyncrasis (sp?) of a stack you don't spend most of your time in. Again, not being pro MS here, but I do know it would be nice to have the option to develop the same in Linux, for example. I know mono is there, but I always felt it took the.NET - down approach, instead of the CLR/IM - up approach. (Again, could be wrong as you can't have one without the other, but I feel many.NET people are out of theie element in Mono.)
While I am a programmer at heart I supposed, I do have a strong interest in biology (amongst other things). I just wanted to add to any geeks out there who have any interest at all in biology, read this book. I found it to be excellent on many levels. I am not here to do a book review, just wanted to say it comes highly recommened from someone *not* in the field. Also, if your in OC (SoCal), I think I saw a flyer that he gave a speech down in Laguna Beach a few months ago. Not sure if he is normally in the area or not.
This was some good advice, so I just want to back it up. I have done a fair bit of traveling, and not just to tourist locales. I have been to England, France, Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, etc. One thing I have learned is travel light. You will be frustrated and annoyed having to carry to many things. As for the electronics issue, I guess camera and music are fine, but forget the laptop. That will just be begging to be stolen. What would you rather do, enjoy your trip, or basically babysit electronics around the world? I totally get what your trying to do (stay connected, blog about the trip, etc), but internet cafe's will have to be the way to go. You can try and make some friends along the way that have laptops (or even locals) so you can upload your pictures. Take a notepad and a couple pens and just write out your adventure and just type it up later. Not reason to dwell on your prose, write done, what, when, where, why, etc. You can fill back in the details later. You don't want to see the Seven Swans Pagagoda and not remember what it was called later on, but long as you write blurbs to yourself about what you did and when (so you can get the order right), you can easily remember the rest later.
Most importantly, have fun, thats the point. Life is about experiences.
Like most people, I find it hard to believe teachers are treated so poorly on many levels. For them of course, the two most important (in terms of it being a job) are money and time. You can point out some get three months off in summer, but what about having to get up 5:30am *every weekday* and leave at same time *every weekday*. Lets be honest, how many non-blue collar jobs are that strict in terms of schedule? Not many.
As for different pay scales, go with achievement bonuses or something. Now granted, it is entirely possible you have a truly disinterested student body some years, but I would think more often then not, a good teacher can get things going one way or the other.
If a teacher is not certified, how about, oh I don't know, get it for them, free of charge? If they are already in the system, get them up to snuff. You know, help each other out?
Everyone can point out how broke the system is, but like anything else, while these people are in the system, it only takes a few tweaks here and there and things could be much better off. No one can expect this to change over night.
Ok, I have not bought the full version yet, but I will soon. However, I thought I would comment on the demo (which basically times out 30 minutes after you make any skill reach level 2).
I had a blast. Granted, story line is moot, the boss fights are pretty much the same. When you increase the difficulty, it just makes your shield/life go down faster and enemies are stronger and come around faster.
The graphics I think are good, the style is great. It had a very E-SWAT feeling for me, which is extremely positive. As for audio, come on, it has DJ Krush (-esque?) music during the main menu, what else you want?
Being able to run around the city, jump around the city, blow things up, etc, is great fun. You can't go into buildings, and I have not done much driving yet (too much fun jumping around skyscrapers to worry about it) but it did not so much appeal to me.
There are other minigames like racing around the building, following a green beam of light.
As for the penalty issue, its no big deal. Sure, sometimes there is "collateral damage", but long as its not a habit, your fine. Plenty of gang hit squards to blow up if you need to destroy something.
Regardless, beauty of all this is, you can get the demo and decide for yourself. I really liked it.
However, I do see what everyone else says. This game *could have been* great. No major flaws, its just a solid base waiting for a sequel I think at this point.
I am not a fanboy, I been gaming all my life (29 now), and have no real bias towards any platform.
With that said, can they please do something about the noise levels? Sometimes playing Oblivion I feel the 360 is about to take off or something. Don't get me wrong, the HDD upgrade would be nice as would the 1080P, etc. But in terms of enjoyment, I would be so much happier if it was just quiet!
I guess asking to copy the CD to the HDD the first time you play and let you play without the disc is asking too much right? (Yeah, I realize the pirates would be on that in a second.)
I could be completely off base here, but I read a while back the reason is because previously it was too cold to snow as much as before. However, since now thanks to "global warming", it is snowing more, but still below the freezing point and hence more ice. Again, I could be wrong here, but sounded like a good explanation to me for this phenomenom.
Not that I can add too much to what the parent said, but I agree. I have had mine now I am guessing 4-6 months and I love it. I have seen it around for even cheaper then what I gave (which was 1700), like around 1500 (US). To be honest, I can not think of any thing bad about this TV so far. Great picture, and um, great picture. I guess I should make a note that it is a monitor, so no built in tuner for HDTV (not that really bothers me), and the remote is *weak*. But otherwise, I love it actually have since recommended it to several other people. I never even watch TV on it as I am too busy with XBOX 360 in 1080 *p*. (Thought to be honest, I did not really notice any difference in 1080i vs p).
Obviously, everyone knows its better to have a happier life in general. However, in this case, who is to say that the people are no fun at the MS shop? You have to realize, when push comes to shove, no company is ever truly looking out for you in the end. You need to be proactive and look out for yourself (and family if the case dictates that). You can play games with other people at other times, you do not need to rely on your co-workers for that.
Also moving 120 miles for it? No job is for certain. You may get their and find you can not stand them. But in the process you give up everything just to find out. Thats a big negative.
Debt? Debt sucks, and one is paying substantially more? Again, should be obvious by this point.
As for job prospects. Yes, there are more.NET positions. But also note that maybe you should not look at just PERL positions, as most people say.NET when they mean (.NET/HTML/IIS/SQL Server, etc), as they Linux webadmin when they mean (LINUX, Apache, MySql, PERL, PHP, etc). But I get your point. If you truly only focus on PERL, then you have an issue, but I doubt you do. Good jobs will always be around for smart people.
So yeah, since debts a concern, and moving is never really fun, and its offering substantially more money, and only actual kind of benefit you really push is a "possibly more fun environment over the big place", hands down, go for the.NET position.
[Notice, its not about what technologies, its all about money, lifestyle changes, assumptions that are incorrect, etc].
Is there no legal precedence that prevents a lawyer from constantly trying to attempt the same lawsuit again and again? I realize if the plantiff hires them, fine. However, it seems he involves himself basically (if not start the suit outright). How can this not be viewed as an abuse of the system. It is not like he going after different issues. He is just waiting for his lightening to strike, in this case a judge and jury who agrees with "video games causes violence". Just curious.
About a month ago, after wanting a flat panel television for 10+ years, I bought the Westinghouse LVM-42w2. Far as I know it does support 1080p over all its inputs that it would apply to. Here is a link about the monitor (yes, no tuner built in):
I currently have my XBOX 360 setup for 1080i, and my computer hooked up over DVI. I have a dual montior setup, so the LVM-42w2 gets my secondary desktop at 1920*1080 and my 20'' widescreen (Dell) gets 1680*1200 or something similar. .
However, maybe I am wrong, but I thought the 360 did not upsample DVD's, only games. I can not remember where I read that. Anyway, I am very happy about this coming upgrade as I am sure while maybe minor to my eyes, it will still be appreicate.
By the way, for those wanting to know. I got it at Best Buy (yeah yeah I know I know), for 1700 dollars. Delivered next day. Also, I had to look online for what other users had done for the settings, and followed them and that helped greatly. As for the supposed power issue, I have version 1.0 (I think they are up to 1.16 or something), and never had it happen to me. But if it does, Westinghouse will come and flash your monitor for you to fix it.
What? Come on now. I know/. is very pro-Open Source, con-MS, but thats ridiculous. I have only had 1 actual XP crash since it came up, and that was due to a fan dying on the graphics card causing it to overheat. XP (Pro anyway, can't speak on Home), is extremely stable and it has been my primary development platform for several years. I was even co-founder and ex-pres of my Alma Mater's LUG, so I am not some MS fanboy. But the blind XP bashing really needs to stop around here, its very counter productive and not even funny anymore.
Now hear me out. I have read on various top 100 lists over there years, that barcodes are one of the most important inventions in human history. Reason being because of logisitics. We could simply not have the engineering projects, economic growth, etc with them (or in an alternate universe, some other method). As for my own experience, I used to work at a company that built variable data printers, meaning unlike regular printers, the content could change with each print. So in this case, barcodes was our core market. I probably know more about barcodes then anyone really should have to know, but once you get the hang of a couple, like anything else, there is no great mystery to them. Code 3 of 9, Code 128, UPC, Matrix, etc are your friends! And for the hardcore/. crowd, barcodes are not RFID!
Thats true, I forgot about that *small* detail. But even so, going all the way back, I am more just referring to the concept of small change and subsequent survival of the changed genes. Its time to leave work...when I start forgetting birds are dinosaurs, you know it must be a long weekend:)
I recently finished reading the Ancestor's Tale, which I found to be an awesome book, minus the occasional Sagan-esque polictical ramblings. Just thinking in terms of how he presented evolution through incremental change and subsequent survival, I wonder if its possible that maybe the first "chickens" did not hatch in "eggs" at all. Maybe (sorry for lack of technical terms here), the material in which the animal was born (live, not incubated in an egg), over time, developed into a harder material. As time moved forward, the placental material merged into this area as well. One thing leads to another and basically it became an independant birthing(?) unit. Similar to the who created God paradox, the egg did not just magically exist, it was created through circumstantial events that luckily enough managed to survive to become the defacto method of chick delivery.
I just got an E1505 a few days ago, because they had a 750 dollar off special if your system was 2000 or more. So yes, he could easily have gotten it for 1400. Mine only has 1 GB or ram and the 1.87GHz cpu, but it was 1200.
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My first real computer experience was on an Apple ][ at my elementary school. Granted it took many other factors over a lifetime to lead me where I am today, but I have to give props to Steve Jobs (and the Woz) for help getting it (being career, educational choices, etc.) started.
Looking back, its hard to remember in my new found "old" age. While maybe not exactly right, I do remember a game called Crossbows and Catapults. I doubt that game would have been sold in 20 years due to our new nanny state were everything that can put out an eye is banned.
As for video games, I would think Atarti 2600 probably. I remember switching the RF switch box and firing it up while listening to whatever tapes I recorded off the radio! [I am sure someone will tell me thats nothing, they stuck transitors in potatos while walking uphill both ways to get music.] Oddly enough, I got my Atari 400 and 800 many years after my first systems (2600, 7800, Odyssey, NES, etc).
Computers, um...I know I died many times on the Oregon Trail. However, what covered wagon was I in? Tandy something or other, or Commodore 64? Apple 2 maybe at my elementary school's library perhaps.
We have a system in Southern California called Metrolink that basically hooks up the Los Angeles and surrounding counties. Given I am from the east coast and would *love* to be able to take the train/subway to work; I always try to make excuses to use it. However, given the structure of the communities in not only Southern California, but also any city that does not have rail systems; makes this almost a pointless issue. You will still have to drive to whatever station, take the train (if your lucky point to point) and then find alternate transport to the final destination.
I been planning a trip from OC to San Diego and I only wanted to take the train. I have two options currently. I can take Metrolink to Oceanside, then transfer to the Breeze system (could be wrong about the name), then get on the SD Trolley to finish getting downtown. Three train system transfers alone between two neighboring majorly populated areas. Not station transfers on the same system. This of course is minus driving to the station and then taking taxi or walking a mile or two atleast in downtown SD to the final destination.
There have been many proposals about Maglev and other trains to Vegas which again would be great. However, the most promising and realistic option would end the line in like Ontario or Victorville or similar area. The issue here is, the bulk of the drive is coming and leaving from OC (if we are only talking about taking 55 to 91 to 15), so once your out past Victorville, long as there is no accident its usually ok. Literally half or more then the average time is just getting the show on the road or the final 10% (don't forget 87% of statistics are made up, but any SoCal'er will know what I am talking about).
About the best I could think of, atleast for the area is high speed link between the airports, to Vegas, and maybe up the coast. Then also make the trains available at real hours. I could take Metrolink to Union Station, then um, red line (maybe?) to Hollywood to party. However, last trains run very early on weekend so it is of no advantage. Even my aforementioned trip to SD, very few trains on weekend are scheduled. I realize why, but thats also part of why its not used as much on the weekend.
Sorry to diverge, but just wanting to point out, SoCal, like many areas of the country will have many other infrastructure issues to overcome first before adding Maglev on top of it, no matter how great I think it is.
A butterfly flaps its wings...and takes out Multics.
I was wondering what happened. I was playing Texas Hold'Em last night and I was all in for 50K on one hand (a straight). Anyway, I noticed two others went all in, but while they were both clearly all in, there was maybe a 15 second pause. Then I saw one go from all in to fold. I was like ??!?!?!?
Then the other guy had something better (forget what) and won. But I was like wait, how he go from all in, to folding?
I been reading about this for quite a while now and its nice to see it finally happen. However, I do have a question about our (meaning those who purchased one) laptop. I am interested in checking out out, developing on it, etc. This got me to thinking, is it even necassary to have the laptop to develop for it? I am not familiar with its environment so I just wanted to find out if I could. If so, then I probably end up giving the laptop to some local charity to help out at home as well as abroad. I have read different bits about developing for individual projects; but what I want to do is, is there an IDE (not necassary GUI based) for it?
You know, I wonder if they can just take the approach as some of the Windows emulators take on Linux. Once its all opened up and the workings are exposed, just replace those functions as needed based on the platform. At the end of the day, all the platforms have differences or one type or another, so changes would have to be made to the fundamental libraries anyway to ensure same behavior cross-platform.
Parent has a great point. I am not a fanboy for any particular platform as you will see in my previous posts, though maybe I do take MS's side simply because I think the bashing is over the top sometimes.
.NET kind of early. Did it have some issues to start? Sure. Does it still have some? Sure. As all languages and platforms due. However, I feel many people felt that .NET (and subsequently the CLR/IM, etc) was meant to be cross platform hardware-wise, while MS took it to be only on Windows (sort of a Windows JVM so to speak). Hopefully with this change, all the effort gone into .NET can now be harnessed on Unix platforms. Sure, many of us can simply use whatever stack is available, but it be nice to spend most of the time in one so you can focus on the product/problem at hand, not worrying about the idiosyncrasis (sp?) of a stack you don't spend most of your time in. Again, not being pro MS here, but I do know it would be nice to have the option to develop the same in Linux, for example. I know mono is there, but I always felt it took the .NET - down approach, instead of the CLR/IM - up approach. (Again, could be wrong as you can't have one without the other, but I feel many .NET people are out of theie element in Mono.)
Regardless, I cut my teeth in the C++/ASM world and jumped into
While I am a programmer at heart I supposed, I do have a strong interest in biology (amongst other things). I just wanted to add to any geeks out there who have any interest at all in biology, read this book. I found it to be excellent on many levels. I am not here to do a book review, just wanted to say it comes highly recommened from someone *not* in the field. Also, if your in OC (SoCal), I think I saw a flyer that he gave a speech down in Laguna Beach a few months ago. Not sure if he is normally in the area or not.
This was some good advice, so I just want to back it up. I have done a fair bit of traveling, and not just to tourist locales. I have been to England, France, Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, etc. One thing I have learned is travel light. You will be frustrated and annoyed having to carry to many things. As for the electronics issue, I guess camera and music are fine, but forget the laptop. That will just be begging to be stolen. What would you rather do, enjoy your trip, or basically babysit electronics around the world? I totally get what your trying to do (stay connected, blog about the trip, etc), but internet cafe's will have to be the way to go. You can try and make some friends along the way that have laptops (or even locals) so you can upload your pictures. Take a notepad and a couple pens and just write out your adventure and just type it up later. Not reason to dwell on your prose, write done, what, when, where, why, etc. You can fill back in the details later. You don't want to see the Seven Swans Pagagoda and not remember what it was called later on, but long as you write blurbs to yourself about what you did and when (so you can get the order right), you can easily remember the rest later.
Most importantly, have fun, thats the point. Life is about experiences.
Like most people, I find it hard to believe teachers are treated so poorly on many levels. For them of course, the two most important (in terms of it being a job) are money and time. You can point out some get three months off in summer, but what about having to get up 5:30am *every weekday* and leave at same time *every weekday*. Lets be honest, how many non-blue collar jobs are that strict in terms of schedule? Not many.
As for different pay scales, go with achievement bonuses or something. Now granted, it is entirely possible you have a truly disinterested student body some years, but I would think more often then not, a good teacher can get things going one way or the other.
If a teacher is not certified, how about, oh I don't know, get it for them, free of charge? If they are already in the system, get them up to snuff. You know, help each other out?
Everyone can point out how broke the system is, but like anything else, while these people are in the system, it only takes a few tweaks here and there and things could be much better off. No one can expect this to change over night.
Ok, I have not bought the full version yet, but I will soon. However, I thought I would comment on the demo (which basically times out 30 minutes after you make any skill reach level 2).
I had a blast. Granted, story line is moot, the boss fights are pretty much the same. When you increase the difficulty, it just makes your shield/life go down faster and enemies are stronger and come around faster.
The graphics I think are good, the style is great. It had a very E-SWAT feeling for me, which is extremely positive. As for audio, come on, it has DJ Krush (-esque?) music during the main menu, what else you want?
Being able to run around the city, jump around the city, blow things up, etc, is great fun. You can't go into buildings, and I have not done much driving yet (too much fun jumping around skyscrapers to worry about it) but it did not so much appeal to me.
There are other minigames like racing around the building, following a green beam of light.
As for the penalty issue, its no big deal. Sure, sometimes there is "collateral damage", but long as its not a habit, your fine. Plenty of gang hit squards to blow up if you need to destroy something.
Regardless, beauty of all this is, you can get the demo and decide for yourself. I really liked it.
However, I do see what everyone else says. This game *could have been* great. No major flaws, its just a solid base waiting for a sequel I think at this point.
Chastity belt? :(
I am not a fanboy, I been gaming all my life (29 now), and have no real bias towards any platform.
With that said, can they please do something about the noise levels? Sometimes playing Oblivion I feel the 360 is about to take off or something. Don't get me wrong, the HDD upgrade would be nice as would the 1080P, etc. But in terms of enjoyment, I would be so much happier if it was just quiet!
I guess asking to copy the CD to the HDD the first time you play and let you play without the disc is asking too much right? (Yeah, I realize the pirates would be on that in a second.)
I could be completely off base here, but I read a while back the reason is because previously it was too cold to snow as much as before. However, since now thanks to "global warming", it is snowing more, but still below the freezing point and hence more ice. Again, I could be wrong here, but sounded like a good explanation to me for this phenomenom.
Not that I can add too much to what the parent said, but I agree. I have had mine now I am guessing 4-6 months and I love it. I have seen it around for even cheaper then what I gave (which was 1700), like around 1500 (US). To be honest, I can not think of any thing bad about this TV so far. Great picture, and um, great picture. I guess I should make a note that it is a monitor, so no built in tuner for HDTV (not that really bothers me), and the remote is *weak*. But otherwise, I love it actually have since recommended it to several other people. I never even watch TV on it as I am too busy with XBOX 360 in 1080 *p*. (Thought to be honest, I did not really notice any difference in 1080i vs p).
Obviously, everyone knows its better to have a happier life in general. However, in this case, who is to say that the people are no fun at the MS shop? You have to realize, when push comes to shove, no company is ever truly looking out for you in the end. You need to be proactive and look out for yourself (and family if the case dictates that). You can play games with other people at other times, you do not need to rely on your co-workers for that.
.NET positions. But also note that maybe you should not look at just PERL positions, as most people say .NET when they mean (.NET/HTML/IIS/SQL Server, etc), as they Linux webadmin when they mean (LINUX, Apache, MySql, PERL, PHP, etc). But I get your point. If you truly only focus on PERL, then you have an issue, but I doubt you do. Good jobs will always be around for smart people.
.NET position.
Also moving 120 miles for it? No job is for certain. You may get their and find you can not stand them. But in the process you give up everything just to find out. Thats a big negative.
Debt? Debt sucks, and one is paying substantially more? Again, should be obvious by this point.
As for job prospects. Yes, there are more
So yeah, since debts a concern, and moving is never really fun, and its offering substantially more money, and only actual kind of benefit you really push is a "possibly more fun environment over the big place", hands down, go for the
[Notice, its not about what technologies, its all about money, lifestyle changes, assumptions that are incorrect, etc].
What old Koreans think of this.
Is there no legal precedence that prevents a lawyer from constantly trying to attempt the same lawsuit again and again? I realize if the plantiff hires them, fine. However, it seems he involves himself basically (if not start the suit outright). How can this not be viewed as an abuse of the system. It is not like he going after different issues. He is just waiting for his lightening to strike, in this case a judge and jury who agrees with "video games causes violence". Just curious.
About a month ago, after wanting a flat panel television for 10+ years, I bought the Westinghouse LVM-42w2. Far as I know it does support 1080p over all its inputs that it would apply to. Here is a link about the monitor (yes, no tuner built in):
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http://www.westinghousedigital.com/pc-44-7-42-108
I currently have my XBOX 360 setup for 1080i, and my computer hooked up over DVI. I have a dual montior setup, so the LVM-42w2 gets my secondary desktop at 1920*1080 and my 20'' widescreen (Dell) gets 1680*1200 or something similar. .
However, maybe I am wrong, but I thought the 360 did not upsample DVD's, only games. I can not remember where I read that. Anyway, I am very happy about this coming upgrade as I am sure while maybe minor to my eyes, it will still be appreicate.
By the way, for those wanting to know. I got it at Best Buy (yeah yeah I know I know), for 1700 dollars. Delivered next day. Also, I had to look online for what other users had done for the settings, and followed them and that helped greatly. As for the supposed power issue, I have version 1.0 (I think they are up to 1.16 or something), and never had it happen to me. But if it does, Westinghouse will come and flash your monitor for you to fix it.
What? Come on now. I know /. is very pro-Open Source, con-MS, but thats ridiculous. I have only had 1 actual XP crash since it came up, and that was due to a fan dying on the graphics card causing it to overheat. XP (Pro anyway, can't speak on Home), is extremely stable and it has been my primary development platform for several years. I was even co-founder and ex-pres of my Alma Mater's LUG, so I am not some MS fanboy. But the blind XP bashing really needs to stop around here, its very counter productive and not even funny anymore.
Now hear me out. I have read on various top 100 lists over there years, that barcodes are one of the most important inventions in human history. Reason being because of logisitics. We could simply not have the engineering projects, economic growth, etc with them (or in an alternate universe, some other method). As for my own experience, I used to work at a company that built variable data printers, meaning unlike regular printers, the content could change with each print. So in this case, barcodes was our core market. I probably know more about barcodes then anyone really should have to know, but once you get the hang of a couple, like anything else, there is no great mystery to them. Code 3 of 9, Code 128, UPC, Matrix, etc are your friends! And for the hardcore /. crowd, barcodes are not RFID!
Thats true, I forgot about that *small* detail. But even so, going all the way back, I am more just referring to the concept of small change and subsequent survival of the changed genes. Its time to leave work...when I start forgetting birds are dinosaurs, you know it must be a long weekend :)
I recently finished reading the Ancestor's Tale, which I found to be an awesome book, minus the occasional Sagan-esque polictical ramblings. Just thinking in terms of how he presented evolution through incremental change and subsequent survival, I wonder if its possible that maybe the first "chickens" did not hatch in "eggs" at all. Maybe (sorry for lack of technical terms here), the material in which the animal was born (live, not incubated in an egg), over time, developed into a harder material. As time moved forward, the placental material merged into this area as well. One thing leads to another and basically it became an independant birthing(?) unit. Similar to the who created God paradox, the egg did not just magically exist, it was created through circumstantial events that luckily enough managed to survive to become the defacto method of chick delivery.
I just got an E1505 a few days ago, because they had a 750 dollar off special if your system was 2000 or more. So yes, he could easily have gotten it for 1400. Mine only has 1 GB or ram and the 1.87GHz cpu, but it was 1200.